Well I am super, super happy. This week was a rough one but we are doing well. Work is always hard and the hard days are the days we learn the most, but trust me we have a ton of fun here in Cerro. Well I got my first taste of ¨modern medicine¨ in Honduras yesterday. So my comp has a big bug bite that swelled up and got super hot and so we called the mission nurse and after some time she told us to go to the closest clinic, so after church we asked the members where a clinic was well they gave us the directions. We showed up at a small shack with white letters in like a five year olds handwriting painted on the side of the shack CLINICA and I was like no we are not taking you to this chasta place so we found a pharmacy and asked about the clinic and she said that it was the only one in town. So we returned to the ¨clinic¨ and there outside was a man half drunk or tired with a white lab coat and he asked us what was wrong and introduced himself as the doctor well he touched my comps arm and said yep you got bit by a bug. And then we entered the shack where he kept the pills in what looked like a big jail cell and cut up 4 pills and threw them in a plastic bag and said take 2 everyday... oh and that is 180 lempiras. We were so confused and literally got robbed by this stupid ¨doctor¨ who literally did nothing well we called the mission nurse and gave the names of the pills and she said he gave my comp pills for bronchitis..... so ya now I know I will never ever go visit doctor whatever his name is with the shack in the street. Later the members were telling us like a bunch of people have died in his care but whatever it is Honduras where all you need is a lab coat to be a doctor haha. But I love this place so much and the people here. We had an activity for pioneer day even though no one here has pioneer ancestors and it was super cute and just perfect the people here have so much faith and love for the gospel and do everything they can even when sometimes it isn’t very much!!! Everything is so great here and I just am so, so happy!
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Okay so i feel like the weeks are starting to get crazy again! First off 1 year ago saturday I opened that big white envelope and found out I was going to Tegucigalpa Honduras and well I didnt even know how to say Tegucgalpa now I live there. But really I just want to give a big shoutout to my good friend Thomas for hooking me up with literally the best mission in the whole entire world. I am starting to get to that point when I dont even want to go home I already picked out my plot of land and seriously am considering building a house here and selling american clothing. But really I am so so so happy that I was called to serve here! This week we went to the temple and I just love love love the temple! When we were there I saw the hermanas that are serving in Zamorano and they said that Francis (the lady we found in the middle of the woods) was getting baptized on saturday! I was so so happy!!!! Then after the temple we went and bought little ceasers and baskin robbins and it was literally the best american fast food I have had in my whole mission. Well this week we had divisions and hermana morgan from montana came to cerro with me and we just had a great time talking in english and eating nutella sandwiches in the woods. But really she is suepr awesome but when we were in divisions we went to a house and the cute little girl was making a braid with my hair and her hair making it a half blond braid well afterwards i was helping her braid her hair and found that it was FULLLLLL of lice and eggs and all thats so i have been thoroughly checking my hair everyday checking for lice but really the whole world here has lice and it is just a matter of time! Well it has been raining a ton and the other night we walked 45 minutes in the dark pouring rain. but all is well. today we went to the cascadas (waterfalls) and it was suepr pretty! Oh and the best part of my entire week has been teh drunk crazy lady that tried to kiss me a few days ago. so that was a good time she just kept playing with my hair and trying to kidd me in a mototaxi and so i gave her a pass along card and she kissed that instead. I just love Honduras!
Check your kids for lice, Hermana Oram Well this week Hermana Zaleta got changes and I got a HIJA!!! I am training Hermana Aguilar who has almost a week here with me in Honduras! She is from DF in Mexico and is super super awesome she is so sweet!!! But with her starting I keep having flashbacks to my first couple days in the mission and holy moly I have come a long way from crying every night and not understanding or knowing how to say a word. We are still in Cerro Grande so she is super spoiled to start out in such a beautiful area with our beautiful house and all the members are cooking a ton for us right now the other day we had filet mignon and cheesecake and I literally started crying I was so happy. I havent had steak or bacon or really even meat for 8 MONTHS... after my stomach had a rough time but it was super worth it beacause it was so good. Well we are working to get our family of investigators married so the other day we went to city hall (my comp and I) to get all the paper work and I all the people were looking at us weird thinking that we were wanting to get married it was super awkward. But all is well I am so happy with my new companion and to still be here in Cerro. At changes I saw Hermana Alonzo i havent seen her in months!!! I still feel like I started yesterday but now we are coming up on 9 months I cant believe it a year ago this week I was running to the mailbox checking it every 5 seconds for my call and now I am in Honduras literally living the dream! I am so so happy to be here and am so grateful everyday this week I have been reading the Liahona from July and it talks all about pioneers and i have been thinking a lot about the sacrifices they made and really living in Honduras and walking in the forest everyday is not even close to the sacrifices they made. I love you all!!!!!
Peace, Hermana Oram 3 generations mi mama alonzo y mi hijita aguilar well no one wanted to celbrate fourth of july with me. so that was a little sad but dont worry i still wore my red white and blue. but yeah there wasnt a huge party here in Honduras but i was wishing everyone a ^feliz cuatro de julio* in the streets and during all our lessons but yeah no one cared. But this week was good we are working hard out here in Cerro Grande! We walk like burrrrrrrrooooos!!! But really i feel like we walk like 10 miles a day but it is good walking is good for your health. Well this week we successfully coralled two horses out of our front yard and back in throught a tiny little door so pretty much we are horse masters and hermana zaleta and i are going to have a ranch and use the horses so we dont have to walk so much! Oh this week our new little convert Antonio when we asked him who he wanted to say the closing prayer he said *Hermana Oreo should say the prayer* and then we all busted up laughing! Now Oreo has made it to the list of my new names i have received here in Honduras! WELL all of our investigaotrs are progressing nicely there are always struggles and problemitas and satan trying to meddle with our plans but this is the work of the Lord and nothing can stop it from progressing!! I love you all!!!!!!!!!!! sorry i dont feel like i have a ton to write nothing super duper exciting happened this week but all is well!
peace, Hermana Oreo Okay so this week we went to a menos activos house and she had a bush of cute little red peppers and she gave us like 4. Well we got back to the house in the night and my comp is like hey lets eat the chilies and she was like videotaping me and well I thought that it wasn’t going to be that spicy! IT WAS THE HOTTEST THING I HAVE EVER EVER EATEN IN MY LIFE!! I was drinking everything in sight and then I started seeing stars and my lips were so swollen hahahahah it was the funniest thing ever but literally hurt so so bad until the next morning! I hate chili now.
But this week we had a BAPTISM!! It was literally the most beautiful baptism i have ever been too! But Antonio got baptized and was so happy! But like every baptism Satan was definitely trying to stop it from happening! At first there was no power and without power there is no water which means we couldn’t fill the font but we didn’t even have keys to the font so we called the other hermanas de Valle and with a pocket knife and a bobby pin we broke into the baptismal font. Well, there was a slow tickle of water running without the power so we left the water running and went to eat lunch and when we got back to the church the power was on and the pila was almost overfilling the whole beautiful chapel, oops. But then everything went super smoothly and the baptism was so perfect and everything was super happy! Cerro is super pilas right now and we have a ton of trabajo and like todo nuestros investigadores are from references from members the members are helping us so so so much they keep having FHE in there houses and invite us to come and they invite there non member friends and it is always super perfect and everyone is happy! But yeah everything is super good! Hermana Oram here is a pic from the baptism don’t worry we didn’t baptize him in the Perry the platypus shirt Okay so this week Hermana Oram spent some time in the BIG city. I was super out of place because I really have never been to the city but I just had divisions with the sister training leaders in La Esperanza. I was like walking all in the streets not even looking out for cars or anything because I am seriously like this straight up country girl that has spent 7 months in tiny pueblos with dirt roads and like maybe 5 people in the whole town has a car and then I spent a day in Teguc where like there are 5 billion cars and taxis and its crazy but the people are super nice. We went to the house of a little old couple and the wife is 100 years old and the husband 98 and they were so adorable we sang them a hymn and then they were singing to each other it was so adorable. Seriously it was the cutest thing ever and it was the day of their 19th anniversary of getting sealed in the temple. But back here in Cerro todo esta bien! We are killing here in the forest and luckily the rain has let up a little bit so we aren't so soaking wet! The other night we were in a lesson with the family of our investigators and it was a little late and pitch black and we had to walk home and it is like 30 minutes walking to our house and there wasn't mototaxis but when we left the house the little girl said a prayer that we would be protected and make it to our house safe and we started walking and suddenly passed a mototaxi that took us to our house and didn't charge us anything. When we asked him why he was still working so late he said that he had already gone back to his house but felt like there was still someone that needed a mototaxi so he left his house and say us walking. Heavenly Father always answers the prayers of little kids! I love you all,
say your prayers, and watch out for cars Hermana Oram Well it rains and rains and rains here EVERY SINGLE DAY!! Seriously it could be sunny and clear skies in the morning but every single afternoon it pours rain! I havent been dry for a week and all my stuff smells like wet dog... well everything everywhere smells like wet dog! This week I did the most amazing thing I have never been so proud of myself. I did what I never thought was possible. A true miracle came to pass this week. I ate a plate of CANNED TUNA FISH with crackers. The one thing in the whole entire universe that I cannot eat or even smell without puking. It all started Saturday morning when we went to a members house for lunch and while the mom was cooking the daughter brought out a little snack for befor lunvh and it was 5 crackers with 5 mounds of TUNA. Literally I almost died inside and I couldnt say no so I said a little prayer and got over my fear and ate the 5 crakers and tuna without even gagging. Literally MIRACLES everyday are happening here in Honduras...and really the tuna wasnt all that bad. But I am so happy here in this area we have so much support from the members and the branch is really changing. I am so grateful everyday for the miracles that I am seeing. My comp and I spoke in church on Sunday in the chapel without power because the rain so we were yelling from the podium because the microphone didnt work but that is typical Honduras the power always goes out. Then in the night we used candles until the power came back 24 hours later. Hondy is crazy and super muddy right now but dont worry I am working my Crocs! Seriously it is a fad here. Love you so much!! Hermana Oram Okay so Saturday Hermana Oram and Zaleta got super super super super lost in the middle of the forest for 3 hours. It all started out when we went to visit a member and she told us there was a shortcut to get to the other part of our area. She said just follow this little trail there will be a bunch of pine trees and it is super solo but it will take you right to the other part of our area. So we started walking...we couldn’t even imagine what we were about to get ourselves into. We walked and walked and walked (like pioneer children) and got to a steep downhill part so we went down then we had to climb up another mountain so we bear crawled (in skirts) up this recently burnt mountain so we got covered in ash. Then we had to go back down the other side of this mountain to get to this river then we took off our shoes and crossed the river then walked and walked and walked a little more and crossed the river again and found an abandoned scout camp (just like that creepy episode of Psych literally the scout camp looked just like it). In the scout camp there was a sign that said ^Bienvenidos Perdido^ so then we were slightly freaked out and then realized that we were really, really lost. So we walked a little more crossed another river and found a huge nursery with a huge field of birds of paradise it was super pretty. Well we found some workers changing and asked them how to get to where we were going because we were super lost. Well they told us we had to go back to this old abandoned brick boys bathroom so we found the abandoned house and started hiking up straight up a mountain but then we had to go down STRAIGHT DOWN. And well my comp got down just fine but I slipped and fell and fell down the mountain (just like Hot Rod. It wasn’t quite as long but I am pretty sure it looked about the same) and when I landed in the bottom of this valley a huge rock fell and smashed my foot but did absolutely nothing not a bruise, scar, nothing. So I lifted the huge rock from my foot (like bigger than a basketball) and fixed my skirt that was up to my chin and we hiked back up crossing a bunch of barbed wire and at this point it had been 2 hours, so we called out Zone Leaders to say that we were lost in the forest and that we weren’t sure if we were going to make it out alive they told us to pray... so we prayed and about 30 minutes later after bear crawling up a huge mountain we found a road and walked to our lunch appt. 2 hours late. We were soaked in sweat covered in ash and eaten by I don’t even know what kind of species of bugs but we survived and now I can tell my kids about the time I almost lost my skirt in the middle of the Honduran forest. We showed the pictures to members that have lived here for their whole lives and know the whole forest and no one knows where we ended up! But our prayers were answered and we got out alive...almost.
But we learned to never leave the path and pray and pray and pray. Hermana Oram TRANSFERSSSS!!! Okay so now Hermana Oram is in Cerro Grande!! It is a little town close to a little touristy town called Valle de Angleles. There are a ton of gringos and it kinda freaks me out to see so many white people and to hear people talking in English when we go to pueblo (valle de anglels). I am super happy here and it is super pretty and fresco! I am with Hermana Zaleta she is super cool and from Mexico and seriously I love her! We live in a house with a member and it is super pretty and in the middle of the forest and I love it! The branch is small but they are super pilas and they meet in a beautiful church building with a ton of trees! I seriously am son blessed to be here and it is super safe and clean and there are a bunch of stores with things that say Honduras so if anyone wants a souvenir I am in souvenir centro just sent me 2 liters of Dr. Pepper and I will sent you whatever trinket you want! Oh and there are like millions of different hammocks! But it was weird to say adios to my peeps in Zamorano but they are being taken care of and i am just on the other side of the mountain! I haven’t moved too much! I am seriously so happy here and it is a miracle I don’t sweat at all it is perfect weather all day everyday and i literally say ¨it is so pretty here¨ 500 times a day! I love you all and will write more next week I have only been here 3 days so really nothing too crazy has happened there aren’t too many drunks here but I am already friends with one it is super chill oh and the mangos here are HUGE and way better than the tiny ones that they sold in Zamo.
Peace, Hermana Oram This week was super good! (haha i feel like I say that every week). But we had stake conference with Elder Alonso from the seventy and it was super good. This stake conference we took our investigator Francis! We found her the craziest way. Well, one day I was like "hey lets go up through the straight up jungle to visit a menos activo!" We usually take the street but I wanted to check out the jungle. Well we started walking and it was wayyyy longer than I thought it would be, and I was starting to get a little worried because it was super solo but we passed a part where a woman was crossing the stream in front of us. We passed her without even thinking to talk to her but I got a strong feeling to go back and talk to her because if we were going to pass anyone in the jungle we should talk to them at least. Well the woman was Francis Oneyda and she was super positive and said we could teach her the following day. We taught her 1 lesson and she was super positive and said that elders had come and taught her a few years back but for one reason or another she didn’t get baptized, but now she is prepared and she is going to get baptized 13 de Junio. She is super bueno and always ready to go to church and shares the gospel with her family and her family is super awesome too. They heard me coughing and came out with a cup of lemon honey tea concoction that totally cured me! Hondurans are so nice! I am so happy to be where I am, and I love what I am doing, and I am so grateful for the influences of the spirit it am able to receive. I know that I have a million things to improve, but I have changed a ton I feel like haha!
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Hermana OramI am from Queen Creek Arizona. I am a student at BYU Provo, and I am currently serving in the Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission from October 2014 to April 2016. Categories |